Michael Steinberger

Its software is used extensively by Doge.

It gets a $10 billion contract with the Army, and it also gets another contract with ICE, this one for $30 million to help with deportations.

And amid all this

Karp starts publicly singing Trump's praises.

Honestly, I think he's quite brilliant at this.

Saying lots of nice things about Donald Trump in public.

He says that on the issues that are of paramount concern to him now, the border and national security, he thinks that Trump is doing a great job.

And when confronted during interviews, if this represents a big shift in his own position, he insists no.

I didn't shift my politics.

He continues to insist that he's a true progressive, and he thinks that the left has stopped being progressive.

That's a combination of the two, and what proportion of each, I can't really say.

I will say this.

One of the things that makes Karp such an interesting figure is opportunism isn't good enough for him.

He has to find an ideological reason, something personal slash ideological, to really get on board with something.

It can't just be opportunism.

You see with a number of

Major tech executives have gotten on board with Trump the second time around, and with some of them, the cravenness drips off them like sweat.

Karp is a little different.

He has found reasons to get on board with Trump, reasons in his own mind, reasons that go beyond necessity and opportunism.

He thinks Trump is the right guy.